RE: Washing a hot bike? - 2

A tip for riding through water crossings (if you dan't already know). Keep in the car tracks as algae can build up in other areas and is as slick as snot. Beware of pranksters in cars particularly Jeeps/trucks coming the other way who let you get halfway through and charge through creating a waterfall for you. Keep your speed as slow as you can comfortably control and avoid using any more throttle or brake than you have to. Don't ask me how I know any of this.
I ride the Texas hill country all the time and there are water crossings in a lot of places, some even during drought periods. Some counties are spending the money to improve the areas with bridges. Some can be just a few feet across and some, like pictured, are hundreds of feet across during wet seasons. Treat them all with utmost respect if you want to avoid a tip over.

Frank

Zitat von Duckbubbles im Beitrag #16

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A tip for riding through water crossings (if you dan't already know). Keep in the car tracks as algae can build up in other areas and is as slick as snot. Beware of pranksters in cars particularly Jeeps/trucks coming the other way who let you get halfway through and charge through creating a waterfall for you. Keep your speed as slow as you can comfortably control and avoid using any more throttle or brake than you have to. Don't ask me how I know any of this.
I ride the Texas hill country all the time and there are water crossings in a lot of places, some even during drought periods. Some counties are spending the money to improve the areas with bridges. Some can be just a few feet across and some, like pictured, are hundreds of feet across during wet seasons. Treat them all with utmost respect if you want to avoid a tip over.

Frank

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Zitat von Duckbubbles im Beitrag #16

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A tip for riding through water crossings

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One other "tip" came to mind- keep an eye on the path you are taking just in front of the bike, there could be a washed out pothole there that could ruin your day. Avoiding it might be almost impossible, but if you see it first, you can prepare yourself for the inevitable.

Years ago a friend and I were crossing the Nueces River on RR335 (before improvements were made). I was leading and ran into some algae. My bike spun around 180 and I went down. My friend was fairly close and hit the brakes. He went down, too. His saddlebag came loose and was floating downriver. we had to scramble to retrieve it before it got out of sight. Neither of us were very happy about the whole incident. Since then, members of our group ride through water crossings one at a time, or at least keep a lot of distance between.

My "favorite" water crossing story happened maybe 40 years ago. I was exploring a road that ran between RR335 (Vance community) and RR336. Encountered a water crossing, maybe 30 ft. across. After both wheels got into the water the bike slipped out from under me. I had not encountered such a thing before and quickly picked the bike up. A couple of miles later the road turned to gravel and I turned around. Encoutering the water again I was SUPER cautious and entered. The bike fell down again. This time I noticed that when I tried to pick up the bike my footing was slipping all over the place from about 3 inches of algae. So i dropped my bike twice at the same spot within about 5 minutes! Top that.

Frank

What a Muppet😲😲

The other guy wearing an orange sweater (Brad) is not so bright either. Apparently he has so much spare skin that he does not need to wear gloves let alone any other protective clothing.

Chris

Wow. Guy was definitely in shock from the crash. But dang... crack kills